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RogervonOech

  1. @BobMetcalfe Wow, that would do it! Yr consolation: "Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." Morgan Stanley made u wiser!
  2. @BobMetcalfe I get "Gratifying," "Anticlimactic," and esp "Liquifying." What made the IPO process "Disillusioning"?
  3. Remember your own/3Com's IPO in the 80s? What 4 adjectives would you use to characterize the experience for you & investors? @BobMetcalfe
  4. Schadenfreude Watch: how many of you are secretly happy to see Facebook's share price plummet in its first week?
  5. World Values Survey: "Generally speaking, would you say most people can be trusted?" -Sweden 70% -Italy 33% -Turkey 10% #Hmm
  6. I thought the same thing this morning. The bit.ly site just got more confusing. RT @PatrickRuffini What the heck is a bitmark?
  7. @skap5 and 2) two-tiered stock classes
  8. @skap5 More like 1) poor governance
  9. iPhone/iPad user? My friend Jason Hilhourne has a new Kickstarter cable product that's pretty cool j.mp/L1bYAl
  10. Renewable Energy Can't Run the Cloud: data centers now consume 1.3% of all global electricity on.wsj.com/KX112f
  11. "Memo to the NFL: To Reduce Concussions, Ban Helmets." Counter-Intuitive Idea in Forbes j.mp/LZlWHj
  12. His signature is on my diploma! RT @Stanford: Richard Lyman, Stanford's seventh president, dead at 88 bit.ly/LVp1bt
  13. @Toffleresque Have only read excerpts in New Yorker & WSJ. He's a good writer. Am envious of his publicity! :-) We come from diff directions
  14. @armano I was married in Kenilworth (IL)!